Remez Ramblings

Every few years, there’s a new scourge on the streets of London out for your money.

I remember when there were gangs of beggers with babies which I found really quite disturbing - I’m sure there were some genuine ones amongst them all, but you couldn’t turn without seeing one.

Now, I’m a fan of the Big Issue, and buy it when I see vendors. (I became quite friendly with one at Euston Square for a year or so, and was really sad to hear from the next person on the pitch that he died leaving behind a young son). At one point there seemed to be vendors everywhere, and illegal ones as well (who didn’t have badges, or wandered round), and at one point, I wielded the latest issue as a beacon to show I didn’t want to buy another copy (didn’t actually work very well though).

Now we have chuggers (charity muggers) (as pictured here, shot on my Sony Ericsson K800i). Actually, we seem to have passed the peak of the chuggers, thankfully, as their numbers seem to be declining, although this could just be because they don’t like the cold weather, and will return in force in the summer.

If that’s the case, then everyone please stop creating greenhouse gasses, we can get rid of this hazard, by keeping the weather cold, and so we need to cut carbon emissions to stop global warming - otherwise, beware, we’ll have chuggers all year round!

One of the funniest things I’ve seen in quite a while! It starts getting funny one and a half minutes in, but the last couple of minutes are quite superb. Will make you laugh even if you’ve had a terrible day!

Hooray, the ‘o’ key is working as normal again - life is good
Had to have another visit to Vision Express today - one of the lenses was worryingly loose. I had a good look, and could see that the loose lens had a plastic washer where it was screwed to the frame, whereas the other one had a metal one. It made sense that the plastic one would deform, and so would loosen - they cannibalised another pair of rimless glasses on display to get another washer, but they seem ok now. Hopefully that will be the last time I have to visit Vision Express!